1973 Atlanta Braves Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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1973 Atlanta Braves Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics
(Franchise Encyclopedia: 1972/1974)
76-85, Finished 5th in NL West
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Scored 799 runs, Allowed 774 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 83-78
Manager: Eddie Mathews (76-85)
Ballpark: Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium (ballparks.com)
Attendance: 800,655 (11th of 12)
Park Factors Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.
multi-year: Batting - 108, Pitching - 108; one-year: Batting - 114, Pitching - 114

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Redesign Note: Summary Batting, Pitching and Fielding Stats are below. Detailed Batting, Pitching, and Fielding Stats are available using the navigation bar just above this note or the "Detailed" links beside the table headers. Leaderboards have been removed since all tables are now sortable by clicking the headers. The all-stars and salaries are on the roster page linked above.

Team Batting

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Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1	C	Johnny Oates*	27	93	351	322	27	80	6	0	4	27	1	4	22	31	.248	.299	.304	.603	63	98	8	1	6	0	4
2	1B	Mike Lum*	27	138	568	513	74	151	26	6	16	82	2	5	41	89	.294	.351	.462	.813	117	237	3	6	4	4	7
3	2B	Davey Johnson	30	157	651	559	84	151	25	0	43	99	5	3	81	93	.270	.370	.546	.916	143	305	8	9	0	2	9
4	SS	Marty Perez	26	141	567	501	66	125	15	5	8	57	2	3	49	66	.250	.316	.347	.663	78	174	18	2	10	5	1
5	3B	Darrell Evans*	26	161	733	595	114	167	25	8	41	104	6	3	124	104	.281	.403	.556	.959	156	331	9	3	3	8	8
6	LF	Hank Aaron	39	120	465	392	84	118	12	1	40	96	1	1	68	51	.301	.402	.643	1.045	177	252	7	1	0	4	13
7	CF	Dusty Baker	24	159	686	604	101	174	29	4	21	99	24	3	67	72	.288	.359	.454	.813	117	274	14	5	1	9	8
8	RF	Ralph Garr*	27	148	698	668	94	200	32	6	11	55	35	11	22	64	.299	.323	.415	.737	97	277	12	2	4	2	5
Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
9	C	Paul Casanova	31	82	248	236	18	51	7	0	7	18	0	2	11	36	.216	.254	.335	.589	57	79	5	1	0	0	3
10	UT	Sonny Jackson*	28	117	234	206	29	43	5	2	0	12	6	3	22	13	.209	.283	.252	.536	45	52	1	1	1	4	0
11	1B	Dick Dietz	31	83	191	139	22	41	8	1	3	24	0	0	49	25	.295	.474	.432	.905	145	60	6	0	1	2	4
12	1B	Frank Tepedino*	25	74	165	148	20	45	5	0	4	29	0	0	13	21	.304	.354	.419	.773	107	62	6	0	1	3	3
13	UT	Chuck Goggin#	27	64	100	90	18	26	5	0	0	7	0	1	9	19	.289	.350	.344	.694	88	31	2	0	0	1	0
14	3B	Rod Gilbreath	20	29	82	74	10	21	2	1	0	2	2	1	6	10	.284	.341	.338	.679	84	25	2	1	0	1	1
15	OF	Oscar Brown	27	22	62	58	3	12	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	10	.207	.246	.259	.505	36	15	1	0	1	0	0
16	C	Freddie Velazquez	35	15	24	23	2	8	1	0	0	3	0	0	1	3	.348	.375	.391	.766	107	9	0	0	0	0	0
17	1B	Jack Pierce*	25	11	21	20	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	.050	.095	.050	.145	-60	1	0	0	0	0	0
18	IF	Larvell Blanks	23	17	19	18	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.222	.263	.222	.485	32	4	1	0	0	0	0
19	1B	Joe Pepitone*	32	3	12	11	0	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	.364	.417	.364	.780	112	4	2	0	0	0	0
20	LF	Norm Miller*	27	9	12	8	2	3	1	0	1	6	0	0	3	3	.375	.500	.875	1.375	263	7	0	0	0	1	0
21	C	Larry Howard	28	4	10	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	.125	.300	.125	.425	19	1	0	0	0	0	0
22	SS	Leo Foster	22	3	7	6	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.167	.167	.333	.500	31	2	0	0	1	0	0
Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
23	P	Carl Morton	29	40	101	94	7	17	4	0	3	15	0	0	4	25	.181	.222	.319	.541	44	30	0	1	2	0	0
24	P	Phil Niekro	34	42	91	82	3	10	4	0	1	2	0	0	1	26	.122	.143	.207	.350	-7	17	4	1	7	0	0
25	P	Ron Schueler	25	39	71	62	6	11	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	20	.177	.203	.177	.381	3	11	0	0	7	0	0
26	P	Roric Harrison	26	39	62	54	3	3	1	0	2	5	0	0	3	27	.056	.105	.185	.290	-23	10	1	0	5	0	0
27	P	Ron Reed	30	21	46	45	4	9	1	0	0	7	0	0	0	15	.200	.200	.222	.422	14	10	0	0	1	0	0
28	P	Gary Gentry	26	17	34	30	2	7	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	15	.233	.258	.233	.491	33	7	0	0	3	0	0
29	P	Pat Dobson	31	12	18	15	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.067	.067	.067	.133	-64	1	2	0	3	0	0
30	P	Jimmy Freeman*	22	14	13	13	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.154	.154	.154	.308	-17	2	0	0	0	0	0
31	P	Tom House*	26	52	12	10	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.200	.200	.300	.500	33	3	0	0	2	0	0
32	P	Max Leon	23	16	8	7	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.286	.286	.286	.571	54	2	0	0	1	0	0
33	P	Adrian Devine	21	24	5	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.250	.400	.250	.650	79	1	0	0	0	0	0
34	P	Gary Neibauer	28	16	5	4	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	3	.250	.250	1.000	1.250	221	4	0	0	1	0	0
35	P	Wenty Ford	26	4	5	5	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.400	.400	.400	.800	116	2	0	0	0	0	0
36	P	Joe Niekro	28	20	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	80	1	0	0	0	0	0
37	P	Tom Kelley	29	7	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
38	P	Danny Frisella*	27	42	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	170	1	0	0	0	0	0
		Team Totals	27.9	162	6384	5631	799	1497	219	34	206	758	84	40	608	870	.266	.339	.427	.765	105	2402	112	34	65	46	66
		Rank in 12 NL teams				1	1	1	4	5	1		7	9	3	6	1	1	1	1		1
Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB

* - bats left-handed, # - bats both, else - bats right, ? - unknown; OPS_lg for OPS+ does not include pitchers.

Team Pitching

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Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
1	SP	Carl Morton	29	15	10	.600	3.41	38	37	1	10	4	0	256.1	254	114	97	18	70	7	112	4	0	3	1074	116	1.264	8.9	0.6	2.5	3.9	1.60
2	SP	Phil Niekro	34	13	10	.565	3.31	42	30	7	9	1	4	245.0	214	103	90	21	89	4	131	5	0	11	1023	120	1.237	7.9	0.8	3.3	4.8	1.47
3	SP	Ron Schueler	25	8	7	.533	3.87	39	20	7	4	2	2	186.0	179	91	80	24	66	11	124	0	1	8	778	102	1.317	8.7	1.2	3.2	6.0	1.88
4	SP	Roric Harrison	26	11	8	.579	4.16	38	22	12	3	0	5	177.1	161	90	82	15	98	6	130	3	1	9	778	95	1.461	8.2	0.8	5.0	6.6	1.33
5	SP	Ron Reed	30	4	11	.267	4.41	20	19	1	2	0	1	116.1	133	71	57	7	31	6	64	3	0	4	507	90	1.410	10.3	0.5	2.4	5.0	2.06
6	SP	Gary Gentry	26	4	6	.400	3.43	16	14	1	3	0	1	86.2	74	37	33	7	35	3	42	1	0	5	361	116	1.258	7.7	0.7	3.6	4.4	1.20
Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
7	CL	Danny Frisella	27	1	2	.333	4.20	42	0	24	0	0	8	45.0	40	27	21	5	23	2	27	1	1	2	198	94	1.400	8.0	1.0	4.6	5.4	1.17
8	RP	Tom House*	26	4	2	.667	4.68	52	0	23	0	0	4	67.1	58	37	35	13	31	7	42	2	0	0	282	85	1.322	7.8	1.7	4.1	5.6	1.35
9	RP	Adrian Devine	21	2	3	.400	6.40	24	1	11	0	0	4	32.1	45	24	23	6	12	3	15	2	0	0	152	62	1.763	12.5	1.7	3.3	4.2	1.25
10	RP	Jim Panther	28	2	3	.400	7.63	23	0	11	0	0	0	30.2	45	26	26	3	9	1	8	0	0	1	139	52	1.761	13.2	0.9	2.6	2.3	0.89
11	RP	Joe Niekro	28	2	4	.333	4.12	20	0	11	0	0	3	24.0	23	11	11	2	11	1	12	0	0	3	99	96	1.417	8.6	0.8	4.1	4.5	1.09
Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
12		Pat Dobson	31	3	7	.300	4.99	12	10	0	1	1	0	57.2	73	33	32	1	19	5	23	1	0	1	261	79	1.595	11.4	0.2	3.0	3.6	1.21
13		Jimmy Freeman*	22	0	2	.000	7.71	13	5	1	0	0	1	37.1	50	33	32	7	25	1	20	0	0	2	182	51	2.009	12.1	1.7	6.0	4.8	0.80
14		Max Leon	23	2	2	.500	5.33	12	1	2	1	0	0	27.0	30	18	16	6	9	1	18	3	0	1	123	74	1.444	10.0	2.0	3.0	6.0	2.00
15		Gary Neibauer	28	2	1	.667	7.17	16	1	2	0	0	0	21.1	24	19	17	3	19	1	9	2	0	2	107	55	2.016	10.1	1.3	8.0	3.8	0.47
16		Wenty Ford	26	1	2	.333	5.51	4	2	1	1	0	0	16.1	17	10	10	3	8	0	4	1	1	0	72	72	1.531	9.4	1.7	4.4	2.2	0.50
17		Tom Kelley	29	0	1	.000	2.84	7	0	3	0	0	0	12.2	13	5	4	0	7	3	5	0	0	0	55	139	1.579	9.2	0.0	5.0	3.6	0.71
18		Joe Hoerner*	36	2	2	.500	6.39	20	0	5	0	0	2	12.2	17	9	9	1	4	0	10	0	0	0	56	62	1.658	12.1	0.7	2.8	7.1	2.50
19		Al Closter*	30	0	0		14.54	4	0	0	0	0	0	4.1	7	7	7	1	4	1	2	0	0	0	23	27	2.538	14.5	2.1	8.3	4.2	0.50
20		Cecil Upshaw	30	0	1	.000	9.82	5	0	4	0	0	0	3.2	8	5	4	0	2	1	3	0	0	0	21	40	2.727	19.6	0.0	4.9	7.4	1.50
21		Dave Cheadle*	21	0	1	.000	18.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	2	4	4	1	3	2	2	0	1	0	11	22	2.500	9.0	4.5	13.5	9.0	0.67
		Team Totals	28.2	76	85	.472	4.25	162	162	128	34	8	35	1462.0	1467	774	690	144	575	66	803	28	5	52	6302	93	1.397	9.0	0.9	3.5	4.9	1.40
		Rank in 12 NL teams		10	3						7	10	9	4	11	12	12	10	9		10
Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB

* - throws left-handed, # - throws both, else - throws right, ? - unknown

Team Fielding--Totals

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	Age	G	GS	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzrd	Rtzhm	Rof	Rdp	Rctch	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	Pos. Summary
Hank Aaron	39	105	105	857.2	217	207	5	5	0	.977	-1.7	-2.4	3.3	0.8	2.5	-5			2.22	2.02						LF-RF
Dusty Baker	24	156	155	1392.0	408	391	10	7	1	.983	0.6	0.5	-4.4	0.0	-4.5	5			2.59	2.57						CF
Larvell Blanks	23	7	1	19.0	4	1	3	0	0	1.000	-0.6	-37.9	-0.6	-0.7	0.1		0		1.89	0.57						3B-2B-SS
Oscar Brown	27	13	12	112.1	32	31	1	0	0	1.000	-1.1	-11.8	-0.1	1.7	-1.9	-1			2.56	2.46						LF-RF-CF
Paul Casanova	31	78	64	574.1	387	330	48	9	3	.977	-2.0	-4.2						-2	5.92	4.85	9	18	59	28	32%	C
Dave Cheadle	21	2	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0							0.00	0.00						P
Al Closter	30	4	0	4.1	2	1	1	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							4.15	0.50						P
Adrian Devine	21	24	1	32.1	4	2	2	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							1.11	0.17						P
Dick Dietz	31	56	47	358.2	360	325	29	6	19	.983	-6.5	-21.7	-2.5	-0.4	-2.2		0	-4	8.88	6.32	4	5	14	2	13%	1B-C
Pat Dobson	31	12	10	57.2	14	1	12	1	0	.929	0.0	0.0							2.03	1.08						P
Darrell Evans	26	166	159	1440.0	625	266	335	24	44	.962	17.7	14.8	16.7	10.5	6.2		1		3.76	3.62						3B-1B
Wenty Ford	26	4	2	16.1	4	1	3	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							2.20	1.00						P
Leo Foster	22	1	1	11.2	6	5	1	0	1	1.000	-0.6	-61.7	-0.6	-0.6	0.0		0		4.63	6.00						SS
Jimmy Freeman	22	13	5	37.1	4	1	3	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							0.96	0.31						P
Danny Frisella	27	42	0	45.0	11	4	6	1	0	.909	0.0	0.0							2.00	0.24						P
Ralph Garr	27	148	148	1325.0	308	289	9	10	2	.968	-5.5	-5.0	-0.5	3.6	-4.1	-5			2.02	2.01						RF-LF
Gary Gentry	26	16	14	86.2	16	9	7	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							1.66	1.00						P
Rod Gilbreath	20	22	17	155.0	50	16	32	2	4	.960	-1.4	-10.8	-1.4	0.0	-1.4		0		2.79	2.18						3B
Chuck Goggin	27	31	14	145.0	64	22	37	5	7	.922	-3.6	-29.8	-3.6	-1.4	-2.2	0	0	0	3.66	1.90	0	1	0	0		2B-SS-LF-RF-C
Roric Harrison	26	38	22	177.1	33	13	18	2	0	.939	0.0	0.0							1.57	0.82						P
Joe Hoerner	36	20	0	12.2	0	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0							0.00	0.00						P
Tom House	26	52	0	67.1	11	1	10	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							1.47	0.21						P
Larry Howard	28	2	2	16.0	9	8	1	0	0	1.000	-1.0	-75.0						-1	5.06	4.50	0	2	1	0	0%	C
Sonny Jackson	28	93	39	450.1	191	96	89	6	10	.969	2.0	5.3	3.0	5.5	-2.2	0	-1		3.70	1.99						SS-LF-CF-RF
Davey Johnson	30	156	155	1371.2	877	383	464	30	106	.966	-9.8	-8.6	-9.8	-1.1	-8.7		0		5.56	5.43						2B
Tom Kelley	29	7	0	12.2	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							0.71	0.14						P
Max Leon	23	12	1	27.0	3	1	2	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							1.00	0.25						P
Mike Lum	27	149	125	1139.0	884	830	45	9	64	.990	2.9	3.1	4.9	2.2	2.7	-2	0		6.91	5.87						1B-LF-RF-CF
Norm Miller	27	1	1	2.0	3	2	0	1	0	.667	0.0	0.0							9.00	2.00						LF
Carl Morton	29	38	37	256.1	64	26	36	2	2	.969	0.0	0.0							2.18	1.63						P
Gary Neibauer	28	16	1	21.1	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							0.84	0.13						P
Joe Niekro	28	20	0	24.0	7	2	5	0	2	1.000	0.0	0.0							2.62	0.35						P
Phil Niekro	34	42	30	245.0	75	30	41	4	4	.947	0.0	0.0							2.61	1.69						P
Johnny Oates	27	86	79	715.0	475	409	57	9	6	.981	4.0	6.7						4	5.87	5.42	10	21	43	29	40%	C
Jim Panther	28	23	0	30.2	4	2	1	1	0	.750	0.0	0.0							0.88	0.13						P
Joe Pepitone	32	3	3	26.0	27	26	0	1	5	.963	-1.2	-55.4	-1.2	-0.2	-1.0		0		9.00	8.67						1B
Marty Perez	26	139	130	1177.2	656	215	416	25	78	.962	-0.6	-0.6	-0.6	0.4	-1.0		0		4.82	4.54						SS
Jack Pierce	25	6	4	38.1	46	42	4	0	1	1.000	1.0	31.3	1.0	0.5	0.5		0		10.80	7.67						1B
Ron Reed	30	20	19	116.1	36	15	20	1	1	.972	0.0	0.0							2.71	1.75						P
Ron Schueler	25	39	20	186.0	35	11	23	1	1	.971	0.0	0.0							1.65	0.87						P
Frank Tepedino	25	58	30	321.2	362	331	28	3	30	.992	2.7	10.1	2.7	3.9	-1.3		0		10.04	6.19						1B
Cecil Upshaw	30	5	0	3.2	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							2.45	0.20						P
Freddie Velazquez	35	11	5	47.2	40	36	3	1	0	.975	0.0	0.0						0	7.36	3.55	0	2	2	1	33%	C
Team Totals	28.0	162	1944	17544.0	7515	5485	1838	192	394	.974	-8.6	-0.6	10.4	35.0	-24.7	-16	0	-3	3.76	2.95	23	49	119	60	34%
Rank in 12 NL teams								2	9	8
	Age	G	GS	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzrd	Rtzhm	Rof	Rdp	Rctch	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	Pos. Summary

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